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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Linux guru Evan Littman talks about his formal training in Microsoft Windows and his experience with Linux. He first finishes talking about some of the projects that his local group had been working on, which is teaching local organizations how to use Linux, and installing Linux Terminal Server Project networks in local schools.

He says that he likes working with open source software because the developers in this area tend to refer business to one another, rather than stealing each other's business. This is actually a funny segment, because he says it in a dead-pan way, as if the difference is a well-known fact of life, but a newbie audience might not realize that.

He says that he is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer for Windows 2000, and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator for SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. He says that these certification levels were the highest levels available at that time. He says that the advantage of using Windows to set up networks is that it is easy to do so. He says that the advantage of using a Linux guru to set up a network is that because Linux is a bit more difficult to use for setting up a network, you can be sure that the Linux guur will get it done right.

He says that learning Linux was actually not that tough for him, because many of the concepts are similar to his formal Microsoft Windows training, and because the documentation for Linux is free, extensive, and fantastic.

He says that he was able to set up his Linux desktop easily, in about 30 minutes.

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